POSIX-compliant ed in BusyBox?
Roy Tam
roytam at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 01:39:11 UTC 2012
Hi all,
The BusyBox ed is too noisy that breaks the usage from other programs. for
example, mksh's history editing.
FAIL ./check.t:history-ed-1-old (ignored)
Description:
Basic (ed) editing works (assumes you have generic ed editor
that prints no prompts). This is for oldish ed(1) which write
the character count to stdout.
unexpected stdout - first difference: line 2, char 1 (wanted '1', got '"'
wanted:
abc def
13
16
FOOBAR def
got:
abc def
"/tmp/sh89y2qe.tmp", 1 lines, 13 chars
: : "/tmp/sh89y2qe.tmp", 1 lines, 16 chars
: Really quit? FOOBAR def
I think it will be nice if there is an option to make ed keeps the fancy/noisy
messages and let POSIX-compliant output be default.
Best regards,
Roy
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